The experimental pervasive massively multiplayer mobile game ‘Mythical: The Mobile Awakening’ is now in its second round of testing.
Following the first round of testing the game has been polished up and the game has more features. The second round starts on 14th December 2007 and will continue until February 2008. There will be 40 Amazon.co.uk gift tokens worth £15 awarded to players drawn at random from amongst those who fill out the online questionnaire before January 14, 2008.
More information is available at www.mythicalmobile.com.
As part of our research, we’ve also filmed some interesting discussion between Timo Veikkola, Senior Future Specialist at Nokia and Tom Savigar, Strategy and Insight Director, The Future Laboratory on the topics of music, blogging and more.
Download all the videos from here:
future-blogging.zip
future-mobile-inline.zip
future-of-music.zip
You may have heard about the recent research results (press release here) we published around digital behaviors and emerging entertainment trends, in particular the idea of ‘circular entertainment’. We predict that 25 percent of entertainment by 2012 will be created and consumed within peer communities. We’ve had many requests for the report, so here it is in PDF format, broken down by the countries we covered, as well as an overview of the whole research.
Download the overview here
Download the country specifics here
December 5, 2007 - NokiaPressServices,
Nokia recently announced the opportunity for innovative companies to win the chance to open contract negotiations to supply Nokia. The Technology Innovation Competition is seeking innovations with particular focus on miniaturization, enhancing device performance and reducing environmental impact. Entrants must submit a descriptive technology abstract together with key differentiators and its advantages including fact based indication of the maturity level and application areas and be ready to apply their solutions to the mobile market.
The competition has four streams:
- ‘Mobile Multimedia Experience’ seeks innovations in the areas of audio, camera and display technologies
- ‘Future Device Architecture’ demands innovations in processing speed and energy consumption
- ‘User Interfaces’ requires innovations that boost intuitiveness and haptics
- ‘Touch and Feel’ is looking for innovations in look & feel, form factor, durability and movement
Three finalists will be selected from each of the four streams. The 12 finalists will be invited to participate in an innovation exhibition at Nokia headquarters in Finland in April 2007 where they will demonstrate their innovations and discuss them with Nokia decision makers.
The competition can be entered at http://www.mobilerules.org/technology/ . The deadline for entries is 25th January 2008.
December 3, 2007 - NokiaPressServices,
Nokia’s approach to technology is to think not only about the technology itself, but about how it will be used and impact our lives. In “The Way We Live Next” series of technology podcasts Nokia’s technology experts discuss their visions of what the future might bring in mobile communications and technologies.
In the latest podcast Markku Hollström from Nokia Siemens Networks talks about Mobile WiMAX - one of the emerging wireless broadband technologies driving Internet use on the mobile. Listen to the podcast.
Find out more about podcasting and download the Nokia podcast application for free